CHAUTAUQUA — Pulitzer Prize-winning author Matthew Desmond contends that the United States is the richest democracy with the worst poverty.
“That’s who we are as a nation. There’s no other advanced industrial society today that has the kind of level of poverty we have,” he said.
Desmond spoke to an Amphitheater audience Tuesday as part of the theme of “More than Shelter: Redefining the American Home.”
He said he decided to look into how housing played a part in poverty in the U.S., so he moved into a mobile home park on the south side of Milwaukee, then he moved to a rooming house on the city’s north side. From those two neighborhoods, he followed families who were evicted.
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